Twitter Restricts Russian Accounts, Bars Prisoner-of-War Content
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Twitter account on April 6.
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Twitter Inc. will stop amplifying Russian government accounts and ask other government-affiliated media to remove posts featuring prisoners of war, it said in a blog post Tuesday that cited international humanitarian law.
It’s the latest example of how social media platforms are attempting to strike a balance that honors freedom of expression amid a flood of harrowing and often manipulative images and accounts being shared from the front line of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.